There’s a beautiful moral simplicity about sporting contests. Win or lose. In or out. So how nice it is that England, which voted in 2016 to leave the European Union, has done so well in a competition that’s called Euro 2020. After the Brexit vote, the outgoing EU Council president Donald Tusk warned that this … Read more
Home Office threw away £8.6MILLION worth of burgundy passports when UK made ‘symbolic’ switch to old-style blue versions after Brexit – despite the change being planned for more than TWO YEARS EXCLUSIVE: Home Office accounts show £8.6m of old style passports destroyed Government had said the burgundy passports would be issued to avoid waste The … Read more
Home Office threw away £8.6MILLION worth of burgundy passports when UK made ‘symbolic’ switch to old-style blue versions after Brexit – despite the change being planned for more than TWO YEARS EXCLUSIVE: Home Office accounts show £8.6m of old style passports destroyed Government had said the burgundy passports would be issued to avoid waste The … Read more
UK rejects EU demand for Brexit ‘divorce bill’ payment of £40.8billion saying it ‘does not recognise’ the figure – setting up new battle with Brussels No 10 insisted the figure Britain owes is between £35 billion and £39 billion Says it does not accept the revised sum, but the EU insisted that figure was ‘final’ … Read more
Britain and the European Union were locked in a dispute over the size of London’s final Brexit divorce bill last night as official accounts filed in Brussels show that UK taxpayers must pay more than £40billion to leave the bloc – nearly £2billion more than previously forecast. The British Office for Budget Responsibility had previously estimated that … Read more